Rhode Island Hospital has been fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the state Department of Health after its third instance this year of a doctor performing brain surgery in the wrong side of a patient’s head.

”We are extremely concerned about this continuing pattern,” health department director David R. Gifford said in a statement Monday.

Come on, people! This isn’t brain surgery – well, okay, it is, but you know what I mean.

If I ever have to get serious surgery, I’m drawing a great big “X” where they’re supposed to cut, and a big red “NO” on the other side. Can’t be too careful.